A key to any data governance effort is understanding the personal, cultural, and political environment and consciously employing proven principles to enable success. The most successful data governance efforts usually share one thing in common: They developed and implemented effective strategies that provided fertile cultural and political ground for success.

This seminar will share principles, tools, and techniques to empower participants in meeting objectives and moving toward effective data governance.  The instructor will share various insights, showing pitfalls of where data governance efforts can and have gone off course as well as sharing keys to successful data governance efforts. There will be interactive exercises where participants can practice handling difficult issues that commonly arise by applying principles leading to effective data governance.

Participants of this session will gain:

• An understanding of political and cultural factors for which successful data governance teams need to be aware and prepared
• Tools, principles, and techniques to enable data governance, such as keys in understanding motivations, facilitating a common vision, developing trust, and managing conflict
• Stories of how culture and politics either killed or fostered data governance
• Exercises allowing participants to practice overcoming challenges that data governance professionals often face
• Education and experience in preparing for cultural and political challenges as well as applying powerful techniques for developing more effective environments in this non-threatening classroom setting